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First Edition, First Printing. All first issue points including $4.95 price and the Kerouac blurb on the jacket, also 'that fool Red Cross woman' on page 9 and 'It's the plump Red Cross woman named Gwen-doe-lin' on pg. 85-86. Once listed, this will be the least expensive Viking Press First Issue with dust jacket for sale anywhere on the Internet. The majority of such listings are in the mid two-thousands and upward. The reason for the discount is, in the main, the condition of the dust jacket which I have rated Poor. The photo provided will show you the extensive use of tape, the residue of which lingers for posterity (I think the dust jacket was previously owned by Nurse Ratched). It is not, remarkably, price-clipped, though someone penned '379' next to the original $4.95 price (if only they knew). The book is in much better shape, though far from perfect. I've rated it Good. I would describe the covers as Fair, and the interior as Good Plus or Very Good Minus. You can see that there are several light stains on the covers, the one on the front looks like it may have been due to water exposure, though the texture is not affected. There is also some darker discoloration just off the bottom edge of the rear cover, and there is some toning at some of the margins. You can see the spine in the second photograph. It has some brownish staining. Some positives: the spine ends look pretty good, so do the cover edges (there is a of small dark spot on the rear bottom edge, the corners look good as will with only one speck -sized spot of rub-through at the front bottom one. There is a very slight bending downward of the rear bottom corner. The page edges look clean, no conspicuous stains. The spine has a slight to moderate forward lean, but the book is quite solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The pages are, overall, pretty clean. I turned each and every one over. The only significant stain or soiling is on page 39, a fairly light amber colored discoloration over parts of six or seven sentences (it does not impact one's ability to read). It covers a space of about three and half inches across and 1 inch upward, not terrible (you can ask for a photo). The verso page has a very light impression of it. Otherwise, you're looking at maybe 12 to 15 pages with one speck-sized or tiny or small spot, almost all of them at the margin. There isn't much by way of creasing. I saw one tiny bottom corner crease and two or three top corner creases (no placeholder creases). Also there is a reverberating semi-crease just slightly above the tips of the bottom corners of some of the later pages in the book, the result of the aforementioned slightly bending bump to the bottom corner of the rear cover. There are no markings in the book. There are no attachments of any kind. A Lawrence W. Trimble wrote his name and address (state of Oregon where Ken Kesey set this novel) on the blank front end paper. There is no other writing to be found anywhere else in the book. There is a 3 inch by 1/4 inch very light tanning just off part of the top edge of this page and the following page, the half-title page. It disappears after that. The same light tanning can also be seen on the rear blank end paper and the blank rear side of the last page of the book, again disappearing after that. 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel by Ken Kesey published in 1962. Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative serves as a study of institutional processes and the human mind, including a critique of psychiatry and a tribute to individualistic principles. It was adapted into the Broadway (and later off-Broadway) play One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Dale Wasserman in 1963. Bo Goldman adapted the novel into a 1975 film of the same name directed by Milo? Forman, which won five Academy Awards. Time magazine included the novel in its '100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005' list.'.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel written by Ken Kesey, first published in 1962. The book is a powerful critique of the mental health system and a poignant study of institutional processes and the human mind.